Video: Christopher Sieber Shares His Broadway Firsts
Mar 21, 2025
What are some of the milestone moments that have most impacted our favorite Broadway performers? We're finding out with 'Broadway Firsts'- a series that unpacks the events that shaped the stars who grace theatre's biggest stages. Christopher Sieber is telling us all about his in this video.
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I am Christopher Seber
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I'm playing Dr. Ernest Menville now on the hit musical comedy. Death Becomes her at the Lumpfontan Theater
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Get your tickets now. And this is Broadway Firsts. Oh, my first role on stage was probably in third grade
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Yeah, I played Colonel Cuddly in the Christmas pageants. And I played like, it was
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He was like a teddy bear character and he smoked a pipe, but he was a colonel
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And he was in this giant toy chest of Christmas toys. And I heard laughter for the first time
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And I was like, that's for me. So thank you, Colonel Cudley
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Oh, well, this is weird
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Oh, well, this is weird
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When did I first find out that I was going to make my debut and who did I tell
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So this is kind of a weird one because it was show that was a Broadway show, but that never came in called Paper Moon. Okay. So I get a callback for Paper Moon and I had a line that I had to rehearse and come to the callback with this line. And the line was, well, there you are. I wonder where you're gone to. Where's your paw? Okay. So I get this piece. And I'm working
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my butt off trying to make this thing something. So I call my friend Katie Finneran, who was at one point was in my favorite year at Lincoln Center
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And she was a Broadway actress. So I was like, you know what you're doing. So I called her and I gave her the line reading She said that great And I said great So I did it I went into the room I so nervous I reading Well there you going I wonder where you going to Where your paw Did it And they were like great got the offer
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Broadway show. I got a Broadway show. Oh, my God. So Andrea Burns was my roommate
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And I told her because she was good friends with Katie Fiderent
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Okay. So the first thought after that was I've got a line in a Broadway show
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I could get a Tony nomination for that one line and hey, it could happen
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it could happen but so that was my we folded out of town even though the marquee was up at the
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Marriott Marquis Theater right over there and my name was on a poster
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but we never came in oh gosh my first cast recording What was that
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I think it was triumph of love, I think. Yeah, in 1997, 98
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I believe that was, I played a jiz, a prince, and I sang a song called Issue in Question And yeah I think that was my first cast recording Oh my first Tony Awards experience was well we could go back to my childhood And I remember being back in 1980
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something, and seeing them on television. And I was sitting there with my mom in the living
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room in northern Minnesota. And I believe it was the mystery of Edwin Drood
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and hearing Cleo Lane sing and watching that entire cast doing that opening like
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there you are but there you are I was enraptured and I was like
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I want to do that one day I want to be what those people are
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and now I can't believe that I'm doing that and I can't believe that I get to
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and I'm grateful for every minute of it. Oh, my next Broadway dream
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is anything that's new. I love new things. I love creating new things
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So, and I always fall in love with the character I'm doing at the time. So anything that's new
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